OT-ish: What's the HP9000 K Class K570 server equivalent to?

From: Paul Thompson <thompson_at_new.rr.com>
Date: Sat Aug 7 13:49:09 2004

On Fri, 6 Aug 2004, Zane H. Healy wrote:

> For Interger performance it's slightly better than a Pentium II
> 350Mhz, and for Floating Point, it's somewhere around a Pentium III
> 500-550Mhz. The other thing to remember is that the PA-RISC chip is
> 64-bit. I'm guessing the K570 also weighs a lot more than any normal
> Pentium II or Pentium III system :^)
>
This particular rev of the PARISC is still 32 bit. The 64 bit machines
did not come until later. The performance sounds about right.

Your HSC-bus peripherals are better than your HPPB. HP had a habit of
making peripherals for the precision bus which could not run at full
speed. The 100Mb ethernet comes to mind as one.
Received on Sat Aug 07 2004 - 13:49:09 BST